Bring Your Midwifery Expertise to a Clinical Leadership Role

Take your midwifery career to the next level as a Clinical Midwife Consultant, providing advanced clinical leadership across Birth Suites and the Maternity Assessment Centre at Logan Hospital.

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Your new role:

As a Clinical Midwife Consultant, you will provide advanced clinical and professional leadership across Birth Suites and the Maternity Assessment Centre, supporting the delivery of safe, evidence-based and individualised maternity care. Working closely with the Midwifery Unit Manager, other senior midwives, educators and the multidisciplinary team, you will use your specialist expertise to guide complex clinical decision-making, strengthen contemporary models of care and support midwives to work to their full scope of practice.

This is an opportunity to influence maternity care, support workforce development and contribute to a positive practice environment where women, families and their choices remain at the centre of care.

• Undertake clinical rounding and provide support with complex and critical decisions during labour and birth.
• Promote safe, compassionate and individualised woman-centred care.
• Support midwives and multidisciplinary colleagues in complex and high-risk clinical situations.
• Facilitate debriefing, reflective practice, mentoring and professional development.

About you:

You are an experienced and confident midwife who brings advanced clinical knowledge, strong leadership capability and a genuine commitment to woman-centred care. You will be passionate about supporting your colleagues, improving maternity outcomes and creating a positive practice environment where excellence, collaboration, education and continuous improvement are valued.

• Demonstrated experience providing senior clinical leadership in a maternity setting.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary, evidence-based midwifery practice.
• Experience supporting complex and high-risk maternity care.
• Proven ability to lead quality improvement and clinical governance activities.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.

We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.

Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Role Description_MS09690747 (PDF)